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 | Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) (1st Edition) by Mario Biagioli Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 1994 ISBN-10: 0-226-04560-9 / 0226045609 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-04560-3 / 9780226045603 Informed by currents in sociology, cultural anthropology, and literary theory, Galileo, Courtier is neither a biography nor a conventional history of science. In the court of the Medicis and the Vatican, Galileo fashioned both his career and his science to the demands of patronage and its complex sy | |